ESA satellites are tracking the path of Hurricane Dean as it rips across the Caribbean Sea carrying winds as high as 260 km/h. The hurricane, which has already claimed eight lives, is forecast to slam into Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on Tuesday morning.

Already a killer storm, hurricane Dean strengthened into a "potentially catastrophic" category five hurricane just hours before it was expected to slam Mexico's Caribbean coast early this morning.

Mexico's state-run Pemex oil company abandoned its offshore oil rigs just ahead of Hurricane Dean, evacuating more than 18,000 workers and shutting down production in its main oil-producing region.

U.S. President George W. Bush will review the credit crunch and global market turmoil with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon at a two-day summit that starts on Monday.

Children who are chronically exposed to higher levels of air pollution show marked deficiencies in lung growth and function, and not just short-term breathing problems, according to researchers in Mexico.

Mexico and Argentina have signed an agreement aimed at improving political and economic cooperation. Mexican President Felipe Calderon and his Argentine counterpart, Nestor Kirchner, signed the pact Monday in Mexico City.

On June 28 the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a supplemental US$7.35 million grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) for Mexico to promote the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity through the consolidation of the National Protected Areas System.

Sargassum seaweed, famous in nautical lore for entangling ships in its dense floating vegetation, has been detected from space for the first time thanks to an instrument aboard ESA's environmental satellite, Envisat. The ability to monitor Sargassum globally will allow researchers to understand better the primary productivity of the ocean and better predict climate change.

New charcoal and plant microfossil evidence from Mexico's Central Balsas valley links a pivotal cultural shift, crop domestication in the New World, to local and regional environmental history. Agriculture in the Balsas valley originated and diversified during the warm, wet, postglacial period following the much cooler and drier climate in the final phases of the last ice age.

A robotic vehicle designed for underwater exploration plunged repeatedly into the depths of Mexico's mysterious El Zacatуn sinkhole in late May, finding its previously undiscovered bottom 318 meters below the surface and generating a sonar map of its inner dimensions. The vehicle employed autonomous navigation and mapping systems developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute.

The winner of Miss Universe 2007 goes to Japan. Miss Riyo Mori is the winner of Miss Universe 2007. She is beautiful: AGE: 20, HEIGHT: 5'8, HAIR COLOR: BROWN, EYE COLOR: BROWN Right before the rounding-up of the Miss Universe 2007 Pageant, the Miss Universe 2006 winner Zuelyka Rivera took the stage to make her final walk as Miss Universe 2006.

Tonight at Miss Universe 2007 RBD Will Perform Three Songs From Their Award Winning Album Rebelde, Voted Best Pop Album Of The Year By The Billboard Latin Music Awards.